Futures and Foresight with AI
An exploratory course on how AI is reshaping futures and foresight practice
The landscape of futures and foresight is beginning to undergo a significant transformation. AI is often introduced as a tool for efficiency, but it is increasingly raising deeper questions about how we perceive, imagine, plan, and innovate for the future.
This shift raises deeper questions beyond merely ‘how do we use these tools?’ and asks how AI is affecting the practice of foresight itself.
This is an exploratory and participatory learning journey into what futures and foresight becomes in an AI-mediated reality. Rather than focusing on how to prompt or operate specific tools, we invite you to engage with live examples, cases, and guest speakers on how AI is already entering foresight practice, and to think critically about what that means for your organisation and beyond.
Who is this for?
The course is designed for business leaders, innovation managers, strategic planners, business developers, and foresight practitioners who want to get ahead of how AI is changing the field of futures and foresight.
A brief introduction to strategic foresight is included as part of the learning journey. However, if you want a stronger foundation in foresight methods and practice, we recommend attending CIFS'
Applied Strategic Foresight course prior to this one.
Before you arrive
We share course material ahead of time and we expect participants to engage with it before the course begins. It sets up the foundation we build upon across the two days.
A basic familiarity with foresight and generative AI is an advantage. You don't need to be an expert in either, but the course moves quickly into exploration rather than foresight fundamentals.
We expect participants to be willing to engage in open-ended discussion, experimentation, and critical reflection, along with an interest in exploring not only how AI can support foresight today, but how foresight itself may need to evolve in an AI-mediated world.
What will you learn?
Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how AI and foresight may evolve together, and what this means for how organisations can approach foresight practice in an AI-mediated reality.
Throughout the course, we connect established foresight principles with new questions about AI, agency, judgement, cognitive ownership, bias, creativity, and strategic decision-making, while also exploring broader societal considerations.
- Examine uncertainties in AI: Develop a deeper understanding of how AI may reshape foresight, innovation, and strategic decision-making, while critically engaging with risks, dilemmas, and uncharted possibilities.
- Understand emerging shifts in AI-mediated foresight practice: Learn how AI is beginning to influence futures and foresight work through cases, signals, and discussions on alternative futures.
- Support better organisational decisions on foresight and AI: Strengthen your ability to make informed choices about how AI becomes part of foresight practice, and what capabilities, processes, and principles are needed to integrate it meaningfully over time.
- Build community at the frontier: Explore alongside CIFS experts, guest speakers, and a group of peers grappling with the same questions, and develop a sharper framing through the exchange.
What is the course format?
The course takes place over two full days at our location in Copenhagen.
The course combines presentations with group activities facilitated by CIFS Senior Futurists and AI experts Sofie Hvitved and Bugge Holm Hansen.
Please note that access to AI tools and licences is not included in the course fee. Participation does not require access to any specific paid tool, but participants will need access to at least one large language model (chatbot) to take part in the exercises.
Day 1: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CET), followed by an informal networking dinner (optional).
Day 2: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CET).
Networking Dinner
We invite you to join us for an optional, self-paid networking dinner on day 1. This is a chance to continue the day's conversations in a relaxed setting and connect with fellow participants and facilitators.
The dinner takes place after day 1, from 19:00 to 21:30, at a restaurant approximately a 20-minute walk from the venue.
The menu is pre-ordered (€100, including shared alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages).
Note: you can sign up for dinner when you sign up for the course.
Price
2600 EUR (+ 25% VAT)
Optional dinner 100 EUR
Dates Available
October 8 - 9
Location and Time
BLOX, Bryghuspladsen 8, Copenhagen
9.00-17.00 local time
In case of cancellation or changes to your registration, please read our
course cancellation and payment policy.Please note that full payment must be received no later than
14 days prior to the course start date. CIFS reserves the right to cancel registrations in the event of non-payment.
Please note we charge Danish VATYou may as a foreign organisation, however, subsequently claim refund of the VAT from the tax authorities.
For more details on our courses contact
courses@cifs.dkDo we offer any other courses?
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Sep 24 - 25 (SOLD OUT) | Oct 22 - 23 | Nov 12 - 13 | Dec 3 - 4
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Applied Strategic Foresight
Paris (hosted by axa foresight)
This time we are coming to Paris!
Learn how to bring futures thinking and foresight into strategy with an intensive and hands-on course in an engaging on-site learning environment. A popular choice for decision-makers, innovation managers, strategic planners, and people who want to get a head-start working strategically with the future.
Strategize like a Futurist
online with hyper island
Oct. 28 - Dec. 2 (six weeks)
Learn how to bring futures thinking and foresight into strategy through a six-week online learning journey with weekly live sessions, asynchronous group work, and individual exercises.
In collaboration with our partners at Hyper Island.
Futures and Foresight with AI (On-site)
Copenhagen
Explore how AI is beginning to reshape the practice of futures and foresight. Rather than treating AI simply as a tool for efficiency, the course examines deeper questions about how we perceive, imagine, plan, and innovate in relation to the future. It is an exploratory and participatory learning journey into what foresight becomes in an AI-mediated reality.
